Hearings Board Finds Problems with Kitsap County CAO

kitsapsun.com: By ChristopherDunagan

"Kitsap County commissioners have been ordered to revisit the county's Critical Areas Ordinance to address shortcomings in shoreline protection rules.

Environmental groups were successful in convincing the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board that the county should have taken a closer look at shorelines during the critical areas review last year.

The board also said the county cannot exempt small, isolated wetlands from regulations, as the county had proposed."